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Uruguay receives adequacy determination from EU for personal data protections.

September 19th, 2012

At the end of August, the European Union determined that Uruguay’s privacy laws provide an adequate level of protection.  This allows companies, governments, or individuals to transfer personal information from Europe to Uruguay without the use of model contract clauses, binding … Read more

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How Lawyers Can Help Developers Design for Privacy

May 24th, 2012

Recently, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and the Future Privacy Forum hosted an App Developer Privacy Conference. The event brought together technologists, lawyers, and business people giving them the chance to communicate their challenges and understand what really needs to happen in … Read more

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Pew Survey highlights users changing concerns about privacy online

March 28th, 2012

Recently, the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report detailing consumer use of search engines.  The survey highlighted both that users have begun to learn how much of their personal data is exposed and their growing concern about their personal data is collected and used. Although … Read more

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SXSW Privacy Roundup: 5 Key Takeaways for Startups

March 20th, 2012

SXSW Interactive, better known as SXSWi, just ended last week.  SXSWi is a wonderful event to experience new startups, applications, and innovations.  This year, privacy was a powerful theme at SXSWi because of all of the recent controversy involving mobile privacy policies and practices.  As a … Read more

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Book Review – I Know Who You Are and I Saw What I Did by Lori Andrews

February 24th, 2012

As social networking sites have become more pervasive, the amount of private information shared online continues to grow. For some, this is just seen as the cost one must pay to take advantage of the convenience offered by the Internet. Others, however, hardly realize the effect of the information … Read more

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European Commission Proposed Data Protection Law

February 15th, 2012

On January 25, 2012, the European Commission released a proposed General Data Protection Legislation (“Proposed Regulation”) for comprehensive reform of existing European Union (“EU”) data protection rules.  Through the Proposed Regulation, the European Commission seeks to “strengthen … Read more

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Announcing the Hastings Privacy and Technology Project

February 13th, 2012

Hastings is proud to announce the launch of the Privacy and Technology Project (Project) and the launch of the Project‘s writings on the HSTLJ blog.  The Project engages in a variety of initiatives, including applied research projects and events.  As part of our activities, the Project will … Read more

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